Sentences with phrase «japanese film culture»

Her research interests include: Japanese film culture, film noir, film theory and the intersections of film history and new media.

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Wes Anderson's «Isle of Dogs» has received near universal acclaim from film critics (the movie currently has a 93 % on Rotten Tomatoes), but even some who have enjoyed the stop - motion film have taken issue with the director's representation of Japanese culture.

And this is true across cultures, from Japanese squirmers like Audition to French films like Inside.

Catch NC Theatre's «Beauty and the Beast,» celebrate a cupcake shop's birthday, learn about Japanese culture and food, and get ready for the solar eclipse with the film «Ladyhawke.»

A Japanese pop culture fan who is into Japanese dramas and films & still active in fan translating them.

The way the filmmaker has imbued Japanese culture and folklore into proceedings is commendable however, particularly in the Alexandre Desplat score, using drums throughout, enhancing the more intense aspects of the narrative which serve the film well.

The film, which had its world premiere last month in Berlin, has caused ripples of controversy in some quarters for its depiction of Japanese culture, though critics have largely sparked to it.

Anderson's latest film is supposed to be an homage to Japanese culture, but some say it «appropriates and marginalizes» instead

While the first two chapters of section one dealt with the field of Japanese cinema as one composed around actual films, the other two chapters in this section suggest that the field is one that analyses discourses around cinema culture at large.

Miyazaki's greatest films have the organic quality of ancient fairy tales: The benevolent forest creatures in My Neighbor Totoro or the bathhouse - frequenting monsters of Spirited Away seem to spring full - blown from both Japanese folk culture and the deepest recesses of preverbal memory.

Interpolating the last day of Mishima's life with scenes from his wrenching novels and his youth, Schrader evokes films like Kurosawa's Rashoman and Kobayashi's Kwaidan, while also exploring the themes of masculinity, honor and dedication that resonate both in Japanese culture and in the director's other work.

Its mainstay status in Chinese martial arts and Japanese anime films remains a gulf that U.S. culture, in its occasional simple - mindedness, remains far from bridging.

Another point of contention, concerning marketability of this film to the U.S., was the heavy references to Japanese culture and folklore that most in the Western world would not understand.

; the famed director hopped from helming a film with porcine themes (Porco being about a bounty hunter pilot cursed with the façade of a pig) to producing one rich in Japanese culture and modern history

I won't bore you with details as to why the original film is far superior other than to say that the entire premise works better in the Japanese culture where social graces are far more repressed, especially when it comes to sexy dancing.

The film is humorous and inventive, but the over-the-top depiction of Japanese culture and somewhat dark undertone may not appeal to everyone.

What this means is that the quality of the projection, the translation of jokes and references to Japanese pop - culture have all been improved ahead of the film's release!

Many of the film's depictions of Japanese culture — including a series of plays on the best - known Nihonga paintings, such as Hokusai's «The Great Wave off Kanagawa» — are these punchlines held in pregnant abeyance: we anticipate something off - colour or ill - considered to find that perhaps the only thing happening is a certain blithe, meaningfully meaningless cultural appropriation.

On another hand, Anderson has, for some inexplicable reason, decided to use the film to turn Japanese culture into a punchline.

Critics claim the director's film, with its sushi and sumo wrestlers, bastardises Japanese culture.

Though the actor is terribly miscast in the role, he's hardly to blame for some of the script's more perplexing decisions — like having his character narrate the story as if he's a detective in a film noir, or the fact that he barely speaks a lick of Japanese despite being the military's expert on the local culture.

Culture hounds and cinephiles should absolutely watch the Japanese anime franchise Ghost in the Shell before attempting (or not) the 2017 American film adaptation.

In the early 2000s, the Japanese government started to evaluate the value of the country's popular culture industry following international successes in anime / manga such as Pokémon and Dragonball, videogames like Nintendo's Legend of Zelda and Super Mario series, and films including Spirited Away (2001) and Ringu (1998).

But the concept also has roots in more contemporary Japanese and American culture and the film's Murakami watched as a teenager.

Huhta has been interested in the Japanese culture for a longtime, reflecting her appreciation for the colourful worlds of comics, film and folklore in her work: «Japan's culture and tradition is really intriguing.

Barney describes the totally words - free art - house flick as an «abstract fairy tale» and says the film's striking visuals were inspired by Japanese culture, fossil fuel and whales, as was Bjork's otherworldly score... R&B «Every Woman» turned motivational speaker Chaka Khan turns it up tonight at the Mountain Winery in Saratoga.

Sourcing prevalent facets of modern Japanese culture like anime, Manga, and yokai horror films, Kenichi Yokono's meticulous carvings contrast rampant notions of globalization and consumerism with the overwhelming «cuteness» (or kawaii) found in his country's commercial vernacular.

In 1954, Ishiro Honda's film Gojira spawned a new wave of Japanese Science Fiction, and introduced the world to a monster that would eventually become synonymous with Japanese culture.

Even though I am a big fan of Japanese samurai films and my favorite director is Akira Kurosawa and actor, Toshiro Mifune, and I think Japanese culture has produced some beautiful and clever things — I have lost all respect for the blatant lying and deceit the Japanese are engaging in with their slaughter of the earth's most intelligent and longest lived non-human mammals.

Japan About Blog In the spirit of open - text, collaboration, communication and good anthropology... Visual Anthropology of Japan explores Japanese culture through photography, film and other visual methods.